{"id":105774,"date":"2025-10-27T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105774\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:24:10","slug":"not-an-easy-decision-reading-owner-defends-call-to-sack-former-ireland-striker-noel-hunt-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105774\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not an easy decision\u2019 \u2013 Reading owner defends call to sack former Ireland striker Noel Hunt as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Noel Hunt has been sacked as Reading manager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9374f3af-7fd9-4bc8-a4eb-ee7ad82d459d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Noel Hunt has been sacked as Reading manager<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former Ireland international Noel Hunt has paid a heavy price for mixed results from his Reading side as the League One club today sacked him as manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hunt had been promoted from within, from an academy role, when he was appointed as manager in place of the sacked Ruben Selles last December, initially on a caretaker basis, before he was appointed on a long-term contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel Hunt has been sacked as Reading manager Former Ireland international Noel Hunt has paid a heavy price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-105774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}